March 2022

April 21st sees the launch of the DfE's Sustainability and Climate Change strategy.  This is an actual event at London's Natural History Museum.  The S of S will be talking, and I've had an invite.  What a treat; my train...

The Economist reports that Egypt spends around $6bn a year subsidising food for the poorest people in its ~100m population.  $2.9bn of this is used to subsidise the staple aish baladi bread.  The magazine notes that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent commodity...

I know that at least some people are wondering why the World Environmental Education Congress took the decision to hold the 2024 WEEC meeting in Abu Dhabi.  I don't know the criteria that are used to make such venue decisions, but, bearing...

ABU DHABI, 17th March, 2022 (WAM) -- Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) will host the 12th World Environment Education Congress (WEEC) in Abu Dhabi in 2024, it was officially announced at the end of congress' 11th edition held in...

If I were heading up a school's general studies programme for older students, right now I'd be planning an exploration as to whether the country ought to ease off on its net-zero ambitions in the face of the new energy...

Pie day today.  Well, not "pie day" but π Day.  A day to celebrate all things to do with π. And this is a piem (that should be πem, I guess): Pie. I wish I could determine pi Eureka cried...

I had an email exchange yesterday with an old friend who's in the environmental education business and who is as disgusted as I am about the unprovoked carnage in Ukraine.  They wondered if our interest in the environment wasn't rather trivial...

A tribute today to the 12-year old Russian schoolboy [Kirill] who challenged his teacher's statement that the war in Ukraine was necessary to halt Kyiv’s aggression.  He argued with her when she said that Ukraine was a Nazi state and...

Last year, the DfE published a model music curriculum.  It escaped my attention but I've now read it.  The Foreword and the introduction to the document makes these points: The Model Music Curriculum [MMC] is designed to introduce the next...

They've been quietly planning to change the curriculum down in Sanctuary Buildings.  But this has nothing to do with climate or other environmental issues; far from it.  It's a change to something much more significant – history.  The government plans...